Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2016 to Question 52825, what estimate she has made of the level of funding support received from HM Treasury for response and recovery activities relating to emergency events in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

Following the extreme flood events of the winters of 2013/14 and 2015/16, HM Treasury provided the following exceptional additional funding to meet costs of responding to the flooding; and repairing, restoring and maintaining critical flood defences:

2013/14 - £30m

2014/15 - £180m

2015/16 - £85m